{"id":80130,"date":"2022-04-18T00:56:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T05:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80130"},"modified":"2022-04-18T00:56:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T05:56:38","slug":"80130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80130","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2022\/04\/todays-installment-in-the-feinstein-countdown.php\">TODAY\u2019S INSTALLMENT IN THE FEINSTEIN COUNTDOWN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0columnist Ruth Marcus, a reliable barometer of certified liberal opinion inside the Beltway, has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/04\/15\/feinstein-mental-acuity-senate\/?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_ideas\">a column up<\/a>\u00a0about the matter of Dianne Feinstein, which even a careless reader can make out as another loud note in chorus of coordinated voices that has determined that Feinstein needs to be forced from office.<\/p>\n<p>The article breaks no new ground in terms of news value or reporting, as with one small exception it simply recycles the details of the<em>\u00a0San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>\u00a0story. The one small exception is this passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Feinstein\u2019s handling of the 2018 Brett M. Kavanaugh confirmation hearings \u2014 in particular, her decision not to alert fellow lawmakers to the allegations by Christine Blasey Ford \u2014\u00a0<strong>prompted a near-insurrection by her Democratic colleagues<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t heard previously that other Democratic Senators had been annoyed by being blindsided by the Blasey Ford allegations, and I am not sure I believe it.<\/p>\n<p>The column pretends to be a high-minded meditation on the general problem of people staying too long in office, and here, too, there is an interesting tell. As Marcus explains it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Feinstein is the oldest sitting senator, but she is far from the only official whose mental acuity has been called into question. . .<\/p>\n<p>So one question raised by the focus on Feinstein must be whether, as some of her defenders insinuate, there is sexism at work. I think I have pretty good radar for sexism, and I just don\u2019t see it. . . To the extent that there is differential treatment, the explanation might be less gender than ideology.\u00a0<strong>Progressive Democrats long frustrated by Feinstein\u2019s centrism are eager for a more liberal replacement.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There it is. (Never mind that Feinstein\u2019s \u201ccentrism\u201d is largely a myth, but it is easy to pull off that con when your fellow Senator is Barbara Boxer and then Kamala Harris.)<strong> And beyond this candid admission, we have to wonder whether this effort to drive Feinstein from office is a dry run for how the left will try to remove President Biden at some point soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY\u2019S INSTALLMENT IN THE FEINSTEIN COUNTDOWN Washington Post\u00a0columnist Ruth Marcus, a reliable barometer of certified liberal opinion inside the Beltway, has\u00a0a column up\u00a0about the matter of Dianne Feinstein, which even a careless reader can make out as another loud note in chorus of coordinated voices that has determined that Feinstein needs to be forced from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80131,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80130\/revisions\/80131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}